Our Mission is to promote multilateral and all dimensional collaborations in IT,Biotechnology,New Material Sciences and Integration of Photon-Electron-Machinery etc., provide a new bridge for high tech entrepreneurship,and offers best services for across-cultural frontier scientific information exchanges.
                 
      Seek New Model, and Innovative Mechanism by forming WHTS

With the goal of merging American Chinese Scientists into main stream scientific field in the States. Many American Chinese Scientists and Engineers with great compassion to form a totally different strategy to build a more dynamic platform for high tech professionals, and entrepreneurs to start business and promote the pivital roles of high tech in our global economic sustainable development. With the insight into the trend of interdisciplinary or multidisplinary merge. WHTS founders won't limit the future society on a special racial group, but launch more compatible system with diversity of professionals of both western and Estern High Tech Professionals, Entrepreneurs,and successful Investors with high profile.

"A Blue Print of Biotechnology/Biopharm-
aceuticals for 21st Century"

Time: 8:30 am-6:00 pm, June 26, 1999,Place: Medical School of Boston University,
715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118

8:30 am - 9:00 am  Registation and Breakfast
8:30 am - 2:00 pm Trade Exposition and Job Clearing House
9:00 am -12:40 pm Morning Session

Morning Session: Keynote Speech and VIP's Lectures

9:00 am - 9:10 am  Opening Remark, Xiaodan Mei, Ph.D, Meeting Chair (Senior
Scientist, Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals)

9:10 am - 9:15 am   SAPA's Mission, Junning Lee, Ph.D., President of SAPA 　　(Senior Principle Scientist, Schering-Plaugh)

9:15 am - 10:00 am Big Pharma and the Small Biotechnology Firm: A Marriage of Convenience or a Lasting Partnership? Rebecca Henderson,Prof. (MIT Sloan Business School)

10:00 am - 10:35 am Industry Trend in 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities　Dan Zhang, Ph.D. (Quinntles, VP of Greater China Area)

10:35 am - 10:50 am  Coffee Break

10:50 am - 11:20 am   From Gene to Drugs Michael G. Palfreyman, Ph.D., D.Sc, (Senior VP, Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals)

11:20 am - 11:50 am     Xu Xiping, Prof. (Harvard Medical School)

11:50 am - 12:20 pm    Improved Chemical Entities: "The Less in Medicine, the Better" Sarah McKenzie, Ph. D. (Program Director of Business Development, Sepracor Inc.)

12:20 pm - 12:40 pm    Annual Report of SAPA-NE, Mr. Kechun Li,,
President of SAPA-NE (Chemist, Eisai Research Institute)

12:40 pm - 1:40 pm       Lunch

Afternoon Session  Parallel Mini-Symposia

Track 1:    Frontier of Drug Discovery and Development
Chair: Yuan Wang, Ph. D., Eisai Research Institute
   
1:40 pm - 2:15 pm        The Discovery of Orally Active, Morpholine Acetal Neurokinin-1 (Substance P ) Receptor Antagonists，Jeffrey Hale, Ph. D. (Group leader, Medicinal chemistry, Merck & Co.)

2:15 pm - 2:50 pm        High Throughput Medicinal Chemistry in Drug Discovery　Li Chen, Ph. D. (Research Leader, Combinatorial Chemistry,Roche Research Center, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.)

2:50 pm - 3:25 pm        Exploring the Universe of Molecules for New Drugs　Regine Bohacek, Ph. D. (Head of the Computational Chemistry, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

3:25 pm - 3:40 pm        Coffee break

3:40 pm - 4:15 pm        Linking Together Chemistry, Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals，Michael Zhang, Ph. D. (R & D scientist, Altus Biologics, Inc.)

4:15 pm - 4:50 pm        The Genomic Research: Past, Present and Future，Hong Chen, Ph. D.(Senior scientist and group leader, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

4:50 pm - 5: 25 pm      Guoqiang Lin, Ph. D. (Head of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academia Sinica)

5:25 pm - 6: 00 pm      Social Hour

Track 2:  Career, Business Development and Intellectual Property Protection

1:30 pm - 2:05 pm        IP for Small Biotech Company ，Nick Sisti, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals

2:05 pm - 2:45 pm        Prospecting for New Ventures in 21 Century-Guiding principles of VC investment in emerging technology and company，Jin Wang, Ph.D. Regional Director, Paramount Capital Investments, LLC

2:45 pm ?3:15 pm         Job Interview Strateges From Employee's　Perspective，Yibin Xiang, Ph.D. Senior Director of Drug Discovery, Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
       
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm        Coffee break

3:30 pm - 4:05 pm        Overview Of a Patent and Its Process Lei Fang, M.D., Ph.D., Patent Officer, Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP

4:05 pm ?4:40 pm        Does in vitro Diagnostics Provide Business Opportunities Manfred Scholz, Ph.D. Senior Consultant, Boston Biomedical 　　　　　　　　　　 Consultants, Inc. (BBC)

5:15 pm - 6: 00 pm      Social Hour

Track 3:  From Interface of Western and Chinese Medicine to Scientific Herb Medicine

1:30 pm - 2:05 pm        Diagnoses and Treatments of Symptoms Caused by Disc Herniation andBone Hypertrophic Change?　Quanli Yang, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School.

2:05 pm - 2:40 pm        Eastern Medicine Meets Western Medicine: The Molecular Mechanism of Arsenic Trioxide (Pi Shuang) Induced Apoptosis in Leukemia Cells ,Yong-Ming Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Picower Institute and Resident at 　NSUH.

2:40 pm - 3:15 pm        How to Develop Chinese Medicine in the United State Shi-Lun Lai, M.D., Professor, CEO and President, HuiGui, 　　　　　　　　　　 Inc., Boston, MA.

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm        Coffee break

3:30 pm - 4:05 pm        New Prospective in Herbal Research Grant Guan R. Hou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, State Univ. of New York.

4:05 pm - 4:40 pm        Zhong-Yao-Xi-Zhi ----- Manufacture of Herbal Remedy Using Modern Pharmaceutic Techniques David L. Liu, MD, PhD, Chair of Chinese Medical Center Trust, Malden, MA, and Assistant Professor of Beth Israel 　　　　　　　Deaconess Medical Center, HMS, Boston, MA.

4:40 pm - 5: 15 pm        Panel Discussion

5:15 pm - 6: 00 pm        Social Hour

Track 4:    Trade Exposition of Novel Technology and New Products for Drug Discovery

1. GL-Synthesis Inc.
2. Quinntles
3. Waters
4. Ottercoast
5. Metlife
6. Sigma-Aldrich
7. Rainin Instrument Co, Inc.
8. Schleicher & Schuell
9. Corning Incorporated
10. Eisai Co.
11. Molecular BioProducts

Track 5. SAPA-NE Job Clearing House

                    Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
                     Genetics Institute
                    Genzyme pharmaceuticals, inc.
                    Biogen Inc.
                    Wilmark Science Devision, (Job Hunter)

This meeting is open to public. However, due to limited space, reservation is reccomended.
Reservation can be made by sending E-mail to:Dr. Xiaodan Mei at xmei@whts.org, (781) 894-6974; (781)942-9817; (617)796-7940; with your name, title, affiliation, address, phone & fax numbers and your e-mail address

Warmup meeting for formation of WHTS

    
   
   
 
   
Meeting Chair: Dr. Xiaodan Mei, Founder of WHTS to host drug discovery symposium in 1999
   
    During the warming up conference at the turning point of New Millennium, many active overseas scholars were gatherinig together to discuss the future trend, updated research progress in biotechnology. There are more than 20 speakers taking part in the symposium. Many young scientists were actively interacting with senior experts to discuss their future career orientations. About 10 local biotech companies sponsor the conference to present their products and technologies. Some companies also displayed the new job positions open for different levels of professionals in biotech and biomedicine field. More than 200 attendants attended at the meeting.
Several newspaper, such as World Journal,Boston News, New Continent covered the grand across cutural conference. Two delegations from Mainland China, one is from Nanjing, the other is from Beijing, participated in the conference.
   
   
   
One corner of the conference. There are more than 200 audiences participated in the one day program.
   
    After the conference, organizers and attendants enjoyed the dinner with speakers. Beside the scientific and technological information exchanges, members also celebrated a colorful dancing and Karaoke party. Several members demostrated suprising talents in both dancing and singing. Most spent a wonderful night until the middle night.
   
   
    Group picture of Major Organizers and Speakers, more than 25 people made great efforts in organizing such multi-session conference.
   
    Call for Speakers, Presentations, posters, product exhibitions for 2003 Across-Cultural Drug Discovery Program for pan-asia-America pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries:
  • Genomics & Bioinformatics
  • Information Technologies in Drug Discovery
    • Bioinformatics
    • Chemoinformatics
    • Pharmacogenomics
    • Pathogenomics
    • Chemogenomics
    • ATME/T
  • Post-Genomic Tech
    • Proteomics
    • Riboproteomics
    • Rebonucleomics
    • Metabonomics
    • Metabolomics
    • Transcriptomics
    • Lipodomics
    • Pharmacogenetics
    • System Biology
    • High Information Screening
    • Virtual Ligand Screening
    • High-Throughput Screening
    • High Volume Screening
    • High Content Screening
    • Target Validation
    • Multi-Target Screening
    • Natural Product Sourcing
    • Chemical Libraries
    • Microbial Strain Libraries and Screening
    • Tissue Engineering and Screening
    • Cell-Based Screening
  • Business Development Session
  • Career Development Session
  • Interdisplinary Session
  • Publication Show
  • Product Exhibition
  • Drug Approval Regulations
  • Outsourcing of Late Stage Drug Discovery
  • Pharmaceutical Technology and Equipment
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